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By Lucy Craymer
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand’s main bank held its money rate consistent at 5.5% on Wednesday however alittle pressed out when it anticipates to start cutting loaning expenses to 2025, which offered some assistance for the New Zealand dollar.
“The committee concurred that the OCR (official money rate) requires to stay at limiting levels for the foreseeable future to guarantee yearly customer rate inflation returns to the 1% to 3% target variety,” the bank stated in its policy declaration.
It stated conditional on its main financial outlook, the money rate would requirement to stay at around its present level of 5.5% for alittle longer than was formerly presumed to satisfy its inflation and work goals.
The RBNZ continues to projection the authorities money rate (OCR) to stay at 5.5% with around a 40% possibility of a evenmore 25 basis point walking to 5.75% in 2024, according to the financial policy evaluation (MP